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Thematic WordPress Framework Toolbox: 10 Very Helpful Hooks

I have been using the WordPress Thematic theme framework with a child theme for a handful of my last projects. I have put together a list of some of the great functions that I came across. Some of them where fairly easy to come by but a few others took a bit of digging to find the right solutions.

Using a Child theme gives you the full advantage of the Thematic Framework but without having to go into the core and mess things up. You can jump right in and use Thematic as your theme but what if you need to upgrade the this Thematic theme? Well you’re going to lose all of your changes. Not to mention that it also keeps things clean and very thing in one place.

From ThemeShaper:“First things first: make a file in your Child Theme folder called functions.php and add the PHP opening and closing tags to the first and second line () using your favorite text editor (I use Smultron). Make sure you don’t have any extra lines before or after these tags. We’re going to be inserting the following snippets of code on the lines in-between these tags. Now you’re ready to make your WordPress Child Theme sing.”

Hi
Nice article.
I’ve been trying to add a third aside box using your “Add Widget area in header”.
By using the modified code below in founctions.php, I got my Product Aside in the admin but can’t make it appear in the view.

// And this is our new function that displays the widgetized area
function thematic_product_aside() {
if (is_sidebar_active(‘product-aside’)) {
echo thematic_before_widget_area(‘product-aside’);
dynamic_sidebar(‘product-aside’);
echo thematic_after_widget_area(‘product-aside’);
}
}

I know the original code you provide works perfectly so what am I doing wrong? Any idea?

So you want to add the content in to the header using an action hook: ‘action_hook’ => ‘thematic_header’,
If you try replacing:
‘action_hook’ => ‘widget_area_product_aside’,
with
‘action_hook’ => ‘thematic_header’,
you might get what your after.

Hoping I might find a little help here. I am trying to create a custom post footer in my thematic child theme. I want to have the categories show, but not the “Bookmark the permalink” part and customize the comments/trackbacks text. Your sample add a custom post footer allows me to remove the bookmark link and customize the comments/trackback text, but I lose the categories. Can you please help me get the categories back in. Everything I’ve tried doesn’t work.